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Adam Fishman

Bio

Adam is WRI’s Project Coordinator for their Post-2015 Development Agenda initiative, housed under the Managing Director’s Office. Adam’s primary responsibilities include internal financial management, overseeing sub-grants and contracts, coordinating external events and supporting colleagues across the institute to promote and enhance WRI’s Post-2015 work. He also conducts targeted research and writing tasks, liaises with UN member states and agencies, and works closely with partners from the Independent Research Forum (IRF2015), a global collaboration of 11 research institutes for which WRI serves as the secretariat.

Before becoming a Project Coordinator, Adam interned with WRI’s Post-2015 team for six months, helping to organize a series of informal retreats on the theme, “Towards a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda.” His prior employment experience includes 14 months in Copenhagen, Denmark as the Sustainability & Environment Program Assistant at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), where he developed a penchant for international environmental issues and UN processes. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, Adam interned for the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) in New York and the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) here in DC.

Adam holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University where he was a government and environmental studies double major, with a concentration in international politics.

In his spare time, Adam can be found biking around the city, organizing a pick-up game of softball or watching one of his native New York sports teams. He is also on an endless quest to find a venue that hosts foosball tournaments, which he became accustomed to playing in during his time abroad.